Dispensing-receptacle.



A. A. REINHARDT.

DISPENSING RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATlON man ma. 15, ms.

1 ,288 ,1 95. Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

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ALVIN A. REINHARDT, OF IBEREA, OHIO.

DIsPnNsING-REcEPTAcLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application filed February 15, 1918. Serial No. 217,397.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN A. REINHARDT, citizen of the United States, residing at Berea, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dispensing-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to dispensing receptacles, and more particularly to receptacles for dispensing mixtures of liquids and solids. The object of the invention is to provide an improved receptacle for storing or containing liquid or solid mixtures and so arranged as to enable a uniform or homogeneous mixture to be readily withdrawn from the receptacle when desired. A further object of the invention is to prevent stopping or choking of the valve by deposit of sediment in any passage leading to the valve and to permit the mixture to be stirred up and withdrawn whenever desired.

In the drawings, which represent one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view on the line 22, Fig. 1.

The receptacle shown in the drawings comprises a body having a bottom 1, a side wall 2, and a top 3, which may be made of any suitable material, such as sheet metal, and in any form or proportions desired. 4 represents a threaded cap closing the usual filling opening 5. At or near the bottom of the receptacle and preferably in its side wall 2, is a discharge opening through which the contents of the receptacle are withdrawn. This opening, in the form shown, is at one end of a faucet member, suitably secured to the wall of the receptacle. Said faucet member is provided with a seat 7 to receive a valve 8 on a valve rod 9 which projects through the end of the faucet and is provided with a suitable operating handle 10. 11 represents a packing for the valve rod, which is held compressed by a follower 12 pressed against the packing by a compression spring 13 whose opposite end seats against a collar 14 on the valve 15 represents the outlet from the faucet.

The valve seat 7 is so arranged that the valve 8 does not project to any material extent into the chamber 16 within the receptacle. In other words, the surface of the valve, when closed, is practically continuous with the inner surface of the side wall 2,

thereby preventing the formation of any channel or recess at the faucet open to the access of liquid in the receptacle and which might therefore become clogged or choked with sediment, but the valve when opened uncovers a clear passage directly from the interior of the receptacle out through the faucet outlet 15.

Within the receptacle is located a suitable stirring or agitating device. As illustrated said device comprises a central rod 17 whose lower end has a bearing in a boss 18 of the bottom 1 and whose upper end projects out through an opening in a threaded cap 19 and is provided with a collar 21 beneath said cap to hold it to its seat in the boss 18. On the lower end of the rod are rigidly sccured one or several vanes 22, which may be slightly inclined to the vertical, so as to give the liquid a swirling motion, and which may be of any suitable height. The outer ends of said vanes come fairly close to the inner surface of the valve 8 when closed, as shown in Fig. 1 and are preferably connected by a strong wire ring 23 to reinforce the vanes and enable them to overcome the resistance of the sediment. One portion of the ring is preferably indented, as at 24, to enable the valve to be operated when desired, and the position of said indented part may be indicated on the outside of the receptacle by the position of the handle 20, as shown in Fig. 2.

The receptacle described may be used for dispensing any material, but is particularly adapted for mixtures of liquids and solids. Abrasive mixtures, such as metal polish for example, consist of a liquid carrying abrasive material in suspension. Materials of this kind when allowed to stand for some tune in a receptacle deposit or precipitate the solid matter as a sediment which collects as a heavy mass on the bottom. The ordinary receptacle with a faucet outlet cannot therefore be used for dispensing such mixtures because the faucet valve is beyond the wall of the receptacle and the passage leading thereto becomes choked with sediment. My improved receptacle enables the deposited sediment to be readily stirred up or agitated in the receptacle. The vanes cut away the sediment, leaving only a slight film thereof in front of the valve, which film "is broken when the valve is pushed in. The valve can be pushed in by bringing the indented portion 24 of the ring opposite the valve opening, as indicated by the position of the handle 20, and if it does not seat because of sediment on the valve seat can be pulled to its seat by a pull on the handle.

What I claim is 2- Apparatus for dispensing a liquid containing solid matter in suspension, comprising a receptacle Whose lower portion is provided with a valve seat closely adjacent to five cents each, by

its Wall, a yielding valve cooperating with said seat and operable from the outside of the receptacle, and an agitating device Within said receptacle and having agitating members Whose path of movement lies closely adjacent to said valve.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ALVIN A. REINHAR-DT.

addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

